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Word entry · 5 letters

graze

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"Scrape lightly"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ɡɹeɪz/Part of speech noun, verbSorted aegrzStarts with GEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of grazing

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English grasen (“to feed with grass”), from Old English grasian, from Proto-West Germanic *grasōn, from Proto-Germanic *grasōną, from *grasą (“grass”) + *-ōną (verbal suffix). Doublet of grass.

Used in a sentence

  • If it be sundown, when the herds are returning from their daily graze in the long grass of the jungle, clouds of dust will be marking their track along every approach to the village […]
  • He hath a Houſe and Barn in repair, a Field or two to graze his Cows, with a Garden and Orchard.
  • Although it is perfectly good meadowland, none of the villagers has ever grazed animals on the meadow on the other side of the wall.

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